Math Fair 2002
The Math Fair project took place this year amidst the teachers job
action. Yet despite this obstacle, ten projects were entered in the
Computational and Mathematical Sciences category at the 2002 Greater Vancouver
Regional Science Fair (GVRSF) and of these, two were selected to attend the
Canada-Wide Science Fair held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in May 2002.
The mathematics projects entered in the 2002 GVRSF and their
corresponding medals and awards are given below:
|
School Name |
Project Title |
GVRSF
Medal
|
PIMS
Award
|
|
|
Rochelle Leung |
York House School |
Decrypting the math
behind cryptography and its ciphers |
Gold Intermediate |
First |
|
Gabrielle Arden |
Burnaby South Secondary |
Forecasting weather with
neural networks |
Gold Intermediate |
Second |
|
Lord Roberts Elementary |
ESL lesson |
Silver Junior |
|
|
|
Queenie Chou |
Richmond Incentive
Program |
Smart music: Relationship
between music and math |
Silver Intermediate |
|
|
Pearly Trinh, Elaine Lee |
Windermere Secondary |
RSA algorithm cryptology |
Silver Senior |
Third |
|
Frank Sun, Winnie Ho |
Windermere Secondary |
Matrices and cryptology |
Bronze Senior |
Second |
|
Inscribed triangles in
circles and ellipses |
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Galina Meleger, Kathryn
Cheng |
York House School |
The golden number |
|
Third |
|
Sean Sutherland |
Sentinel Secondary |
The twin paradox |
|
|
|
Jenny Chu, Stephanie Yu |
York House School |
Chinese steelyard vs. modern day balance |
|
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The students selected to attend the Canada-Wide Science Fair were:
Gabrielle Arden of Burnaby South Secondary School
Forecasting weather with neural networks
Rochelle Leung of York House School
Decrypting the math behind cryptography and its
ciphers
Considering there were only ten projects entered in the Computational and Mathematical Sciences category, it is noteworthy that the GVRSF judges selected two of these projects as part of the top ten projects at the entire science fair.
At the Canada-Wide Science Fair, Gabrielle Arden won a Gold Medal and a $2000 scholarship to the University of Western Ontario in the Intermediate Computational and Mathematical Sciences category, and Rochelle Leung won a Bonze Medal and a $1000 scholarship to the University of Western Ontario in the same category. Congratulations to both students on their outstanding projects!
Gabrielle Arden with her project, Forecasting
Weather with Neural Networks, at the 2002 GVRSF.
Rochelle Leung with her project, Decrypting
the Math behind Cryptography and its Ciphers, at the 2002 GVRSF.
[September 28, 2002]
